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SOLT Kobonal Mission Fundraiser

As many of you in our patient
family know, every other year, we have an office charity fundraiser. We choose
a charity that speaks to our hearts, and give our patients and referral doctors
an opportunity to participate in the fundraiser. In 2012 and 2014, we chose the Kobonal
Mission in Haiti as our charity. Kobonal is the mission that our office team
has visited for the past 5 years. Due to
your amazing generosity, we have collected over $18,000 for the Haiti dental
clinic. Your contributions have made a tremendous impact on the wonderful
people that it serves. We now have 6 totally functioning dental units that
allow us to provide many more dental restorations instead of extractions for
our patients. However, our ultimate goal has always been to be able to provide
the same level of care for our Haitian patients that we provide in our office
in San Antonio. The one area in our Haiti clinic that remains problematic is
sterilization. We have rudimentary sterilization capabilities, but not to the
level that we provide in San Antonio. So we have again chosen the dental clinic
in Haiti for the 2016 campaign. Our primary goal is to purchase a state of the
art sterilizer which will cost several thousand dollars. However, we have
another vision to support our work in Haiti. Providing shoes for little growing
feet is an ongoing problem in the third World. We recently became aware of an
organization that created a very durable shoe that “grows” with the child
through ingenious built-in adjustments. By American standards, these shoes are
very inexpensive at $15. per pair. However, there are 1250 children in the
mission school. So this becomes a very large number. It is our hope that we
will collect enough money to buy our sterilizer and have a lot left over for
shoes. Thank you for considering a financial gift to support our work in Haiti.
If you prefer, you may designate that your contribution be used for the
sterilizer or for the shoes. Your contributions are tax deductible and your
check can be made to Cross Catholic Outreach.